“The Justice Department was preparing to wage a legal battle more than a decade in the making against the world’s largest concert promoter. Then President Trump called,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Settle it, the president told a senior DOJ official, the official later told associates.”

“The intervention was bizarre. The antitrust trial against Live Nation—which also owns Ticketmaster, a combination that draws relentless consumer criticism—was set to begin March 2, just days away. Trump had vowed to crack down on the industry just a year earlier when he signed an executive order targeting ticket-scalping and exploitative pricing in live entertainment. DOJ officials and the company had spent months exchanging settlement proposals but had little to show for it, and some in the government had been pushing to break up the giant.”

“White House involvement in law-enforcement matters, once taboo, is a regular feature of Trump’s second term.”

Axios: “Most Americans (63%) say Trump and his family have inappropriately profited from cryptocurrency — from which he brought in upward of $1 billion last year — since his return to Washington, a four-day Reuters-Ipsos poll out Wednesday found.”

“Plus, nearly seven in 10 Americans believe Trump’s private business interests are influencing his presidential decisions, including nearly half of Republicans (48%).”

“A recent The Economist-YouGov poll of 1,611 U.S. citizens similarly found broad disapproval of Trump and his family doing business with foreign countries, with 65% disapproving.”

“Tucker Carlson kept his 2026 Trump Bashing Tour rolling on Monday by accusing the president of being the most ‘flamboyantly corrupt’ leader in American history during an interview with Hunter Biden,” Mediaite reports.

“If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

— Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

“President Donald Trump on Saturday said that he would ‘push hard’ to enact legislation that would offer payouts to people ‘badly treated’ by the Obama and Biden administrations, his latest threat to resurrect the controversial fund,” the Washington Post reports.

Said Trump: “It will immediately be back on the table, and I will get it done.”

”He added that he would keep Todd Blanche as acting attorney general if his nomination to run the Justice Department fails in the Senate, and blasted two GOP senators who blocked Blanche from advancing.”